US1290702A - Plumbing-fixture for bath-tubs. - Google Patents

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M. M. BERGER.

PLUMBING FIXTURE FOR BATH TUBS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26. 1918.

Patented Jan. 7, 1919.

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MORIS M. BERGER, OF CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OHIO.

PLUMBING FIXTURE FOR BATH-TUBS.

Application filed March 26; 1918. Serial No. 224,851;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Moms M. BERGER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at of a bath-tub and has the lower elbow v Specification of Letters Patent.

adapted to communicate at its upper end with the overflow-opening in said Wall and adapted to communicate at its lower end with a waste-pipe and has the upper elbow adapted to be placed in open relation at its upper end with a water-supply pipe or fixture and has the lower end of the upper elbow screw-threaded internally for receiving the correspondingly externally screwthreaded water-receiving end of a spout adapted to extend through said wall and to discharge into the tub.

One object of this invention is to produce a combined supply and overflow bath-tub plumbing fixture which can be manufactured with facility and'is readily applied to and detachable from the tub.

Another objeet is to produce a fixture of; the character indicated which is compact,

simple and durable in construction, and not liable to get out of order.

Another object is to have the hereinbefore mentioned casting suitable for the reception, at a point between the passageways formed by the elbows, of a screw or bolt employed in the attachment to said casting of a strainer-forming plate applied to the inner side of the hereinbefore mentioned wall and to utilize the aforesaid spout in holding said plate in proper position and to utilizesaid spout in supporting said casting from said wall.

\Vith these objects in View, and to attain: any other object hereinafter appearing, this invention consists in certain features of construction, and combinations and relative arrangement of the parts, hereinafter described in th1s ;specificat1on,-pointed out in Patented-Jan. 7,1919.

the claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings. 7

In said drawings, Figure .1 is a sectional View of a. portion of a loath-tub provided. with a combined supply and overflow fix-' vture embodying my invention and provided with a strainer connected to said fixture. Fig. 2 is'a vertical section taken along the line 2-2, Fig. 1, looking inwardly. ,Fig. 3 is a'vertical section taken along the line 33, Fig. 1, looking outwardly. Fig. 4 is an elevation taken along the line 4-4,

Fig. 1. Q I V Referring to said drawings, A indicates a portion of the foot end wall of a bath tub, and said wall (see Figs. 1 and 5) is provided with an opening 5 at which water is adapted to overflow from the tub.. The opening 5 extends laterally through the wall A, and said wall is provided above said opening with a hole 6 which is spaced from said opening and extends laterally through said wall. At the outer side of the wall'A of the bath-tub and adjacent the hole 6 and overflow-opening 5 in said wall is applied a combined supply and overflow fixture embodying meritorious features ofmy invention and shown as comprising a body B which is in the form of a circular cast metal plate shown" abutting at onev face thereof against said side of said wall and extending around said overflow-opening and around the hole 6. Preferably the overflow-opening 5 is semi-circular and widest at the top thereof, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 4. The body B has its lower portion provided with an outwardly and downwardly project ng tubular member 7 which is integral with said body and in the form of a verticallv arranged elb w and (see Fig. 1) has its lower end-portion screw-threaded internally and adapted to be connected to a waste-pipe (not shown). The elbow' or tubular member 7 forms a passageway 8 which extends endwise through said memher, and is shown in Fig. 1 as communicating at the inner face of said body with the overflow-openlng 5 and is employed 1n establishing. communication. between said opening and the aforesaid waste-pipe and in conducting off water from said opening. The elbow or tubular mem er? is gradually enlarged in width upwardly, as at 9, Figs. 3 and 4, toward the top thereof so as to permit the formation of a passageway 8 which substantiallycorresponds in dimensions and form at its water-receiving end,that is, at the inner face of the body B,with the dimensions and form of th'e-overflow-open-- ing 5 and so as to permit said passageway to properly register at said "end with'said opening. The elbow or tubular member '7 ,iis pro'vided externallyof the top of its-inner and upper end-portion with alug which is arranged centrally"'between the sides of said tendsportion of ,said elbowor tubular 'member and is provided with a horizontally earranged screw-threaded 1101s :12 which extends from .wlithini'said lug to the inner face of the body Band isshown in line endwise @(see .Fig. 1,) lwithiabolt hole 13 formed in and extending laterally through the wall .A

I of the bath-tub.v .Thehole12 isengagedl'by 1 a 4 againstnthe conwex.. side of said vplate. Said "the correspondingly threaded shank of a bolt '0, and i said s'hankeXtendS from within :saidlhole through the {hole 13 in said wall and a suitable distance inwardly beyond .the

inner side of said wall and through a'h'ole 14 formed in a :concavo-convex plate D and f'has a head 15 arranged :at and :abutting plate is circularand has an annular margianal flange 16 abutting against the inner side of the wallA of -the.bath-tub and is large enough .in dimensionstoiextend from below saidoverfiow-opening to. and (above the hole 16 insaid Wall. The .plate D has its lower.v

"portion,"that is, "the portion-thereof below 'thebolt .'C,,provided with slots 03 and (therefore ,foraminated, andsaid slots are V3.1";

. ranged. opposite "the overflow-opening 5, and

i hence the slotted orfforaminated ,plate D formsaa strainer. v fThebolt Cnot only particin holding the strainer-forming ;plate D in place but is seated in and supported from the wall A of a the bath-tub and ,partici- ,pa"tes in supporting the plate or body B 'fromsaid wall A.

The body "B is provided .above the lug '10. of the elbow or tubular member 17 of said body with an outwardly and :upwardly projecting tubular member 17 which is tion-screw threaded internally and engaged by the ad acent correspondingly externally screw-threaded outer end-portion of aspout- 'formingtubularmember E which extends [from within the elbow or tubular member 317 throughthehole '6 in the wall A of the bath-tub and into and through :an opening .18 formed in the upper portion of the s,tra'iner forming plate 1) and discharges intothejitub. Thesp'out "E is therefore detachably connected to theupper elbow or tubular member 17 of the body B and seated in and consequently supported from the end wall A of the bath-tub and serves as a.

support-for the casting forming said body and its elbows or projections 7 and 17 and "also forms a seat for the upperfportion of and thereby serves as a support for the strainer-forming plate D and PIGVBIItS ClIS- placement of the. .stralnereclrcumferent ally of the vbolt -C. The spout E is in communication at its water-receivingend with the passageway 19 formed internally-of the upperelbow or tubular member 17,.andsa1d passageway oextends to the upper extremity of .said elbow ;or tubular member of said body and is adapted to receive water 'to ibetsupplied to said spout.

The joint formed between the spout ,E

and the wall A of thebath-tub andtheijoint formed betweenthe l body l3 and the tub are rendered fluid-tight in any approved manner.

By the construction herei1ib'e fore,:de-

scribed it will be observed that the hereinbefo-rehs'tated objects of iny invention are successfully. attained.

What I claim is 1. "The ,combination, fv vith wall of a vvbathtub, said wall having an overflowopening extending laterally through the wall, of .a combined supply and overflow fixture comprising two tubular el-b ows which are integral with each other and arranged vertically at the outer side. .of said wall and the one above the, other, theuppe'r elbow forming a passageway adapted to receive water at the upper end of said elbow and .to be placedin communication with the interior of the tub, and the lower elbow" forming a passageway arranged .to conduct off :water fromthe-vouter-end of "the aforesaid opening, and a tubular member-threaded intov the lower and inner end-,portion of the upper elbow andcommunicating with the aforesaid passageway in said upper elbow and extending laterally through and vsupported from the aforesaid wall.

2. The combination, with a wall of a bathtub, which wall has an overflow-opening extending laterally through the wall and enlarged :in width toward the top thereof,

said wallbeing provided above said opening with a circular Lholeextending laterally through the wall, and a cast-metal body arranged at the-outer side of said wall and extending around said #circular vhole and around said overflow-opening and having a tubular member which projects outwardly and downwardly and communicates with said overflow-opening and is enlarged in width toward thetop thereof, said body being :provided above said tubular member with another tubularmeniber which projects out; I 130 M. M. BERGER.

PLUMBING FIXTURE FOR BATH TUBS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26. 1918.

Patented Jan. 7, 1919.

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